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Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, Thurston Moore and Jim Sclavunos play Nobody's City – new musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/may/02/iggy-pop-nick-cave-play-jeffrey-lee-pierce-new-music
<p>Hear an all-star lineup pay tribute to Jeffrey Lee Pierce, the late Gun Club leader, in a highlight from the latest Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project album<br></p><p>“Jeffrey Lee Pierce!” There’s no mistaking the first voice to be heard on Axels &amp; Sockets, the third volume of the Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project. It's Iggy Pop’s celebratory holler on the opening track,Nobody’s City. He’s then joined by further inimitable tones from Nick Cave and Thurston Moore, whose incendiary guitar jousts with Pierce’s original riff. This is then welded together by Bad Seeds drummer Jim Sclavunos, who had previously worked with Iggy on a Cramps tribute album.</p><p> The track makes a roof-raising start to the project that brings together Jeffrey’s old friends, fans and band members to keep aloft the name of the Gun Club leader. Axels &amp; Sockets boasts one of the most stellar lineups yet, including Debbie Harry, Primal Scream, Mark Lanegan, Warren Ellis, Gallon Drunk’s James Johnston, Lydia Lunch, Mick Harvey, Kid Congo Powers, Mark Stewart, Hugo Race, Black Moth, Honey, Crippled Black Phoenix and Andrew Weatherall.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/may/02/iggy-pop-nick-cave-play-jeffrey-lee-pierce-new-music">Continue reading...</a>MusicCultureIggy PopNick CaveSonic YouthIndiePop and rockPunkFri, 02 May 2014 09:30:10 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/may/02/iggy-pop-nick-cave-play-jeffrey-lee-pierce-new-musicPhotograph: David Corio/RedfernsGone, but not forgotten … Jeffrey Lee Pierce. Photograph: David Corio/RedfernsPhotograph: David Corio/RedfernsGone, but not forgotten … Jeffrey Lee Pierce. Photograph: David Corio/RedfernsKris Needs2014-05-02T09:30:10ZMichael Jackson: Love Never Felt So Good – first listenhttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/may/02/michael-jackson-love-never-felt-so-good-new-music
<p>Hear the lead single from the forthcoming posthumous Jacko album, Xscape</p><p>• <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/01/first-listen-michael-jackson-xscape">Read Michael Cragg's report on the first playback of Xscape</a></p><p>Michael Jackson's new single was unveiled last night on an NBC TV special in the US. Love Never Felt So Good was featured in the iHeartRadio Music awards, with a Top-of-the-Pops-style dance routine that featured a guest appearance by Usher.</p><p>The song was <a href="http://uploadsociety.com/video_v29931">written and demoed in 1983</a>, and a version was recorded by Johnny Mathis in 1984. The updated version, which will appear on the forthcoming Jackson album, Xscape, "is a magic combination of the new and the original production that retains the track’s analog, early 80s feel, while also sounding right at home with the disco-soul inflected music of today", according to the Jackson estate.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/may/02/michael-jackson-love-never-felt-so-good-new-music">Continue reading...</a>Michael JacksonPop and rockSoulR&BMusicCultureFri, 02 May 2014 06:50:54 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/may/02/michael-jackson-love-never-felt-so-good-new-musicPhotograph: Rex FeaturesMichael Jackson … staying productive, even in death. Photograph: Rex FeaturesPhotograph: Rex FeaturesMichael Jackson … staying productive, even in death. Photograph: Rex FeaturesGuardian music2014-05-02T06:50:54ZSebastien Tellier – L'Adulte: new musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/30/sebastian-tellier-ladulte-new-music
<p>Hear the Brazilian-themed new single from the French singer, whose sixth album is released in July</p><p>Sebastien Tellier releases his sixth album on 14 July, and as a taster we've got an exclusive look at the video for its lead single, L'Adulte. The song itself manages to be both breezily tropical and ineffably sad at the same time, essaying a summery bossa nova, with a video that sees the heavily bearded Tellier wandering his way around Brazil (we have a sneaking suspicion that Brazil is going to be a big theme of the early summer. We're pretty sharp at noticing when there's going to be a giant sports tournament somewhere), with a fair amount of carnival action. Though the music makes one suspect Tellier was going home alone at the end of the night.</p><p>It's no surprise that L'Adulte is so bossa themed, given that its parent album, L'Aventura, is "a concept set in a part-mythical Brazil, cinematic and adventurous" (we're quoting from the press release there). The man himself says: "Brazilian music is perfect as it’s full of mysterious chords and strange melodies, but also light &amp; sunny. I feel my previous albums were just tests to reach this point."</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/30/sebastian-tellier-ladulte-new-music">Continue reading...</a>MusicCulturePop and rockWorld musicWed, 30 Apr 2014 07:00:46 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/30/sebastian-tellier-ladulte-new-musicPhotograph: Ludovic Carême/PRSebastian Tellier … 'Brazilian music is perfect.' Photograph: Ludovic Carême.Photograph: Ludovic Carême/PRSebastian Tellier … 'Brazilian music is perfect.' Photograph: Ludovic Carême.Guardian music2014-04-30T07:00:46ZYou Me at Six's new video for Cold Nightshttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/28/exclusive-you-me-at-six-new-video-cold-nights
<p>Have a look at the new clip from the Surrey pop-punkers as they explore a stadium-friendly sound</p><p>Five albums into their career, and Surrey quintet You Me at Six have become one of the UK's biggest bands. Their last album, Cavalier Youth, topped the charts, and their last sell-out tour saw them filling 10,000-capacity arenas.</p><p>We've got the exclusive video for the third single from Cavalier Youth, Cold Night,where the pop-punk is put aside for a big, commercial rock sound. It's hot from the cutting room – here's what the band tweeted on Sunday 27 April:</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/28/exclusive-you-me-at-six-new-video-cold-nights">Continue reading...</a>MusicPop and rockCultureMon, 28 Apr 2014 16:36:54 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/28/exclusive-you-me-at-six-new-video-cold-nightsPhotograph: PRYou Me at Six … Stadium-ready sound.Photograph: PRYou Me at Six … Stadium-ready sound.Guardian music2014-04-28T16:36:54ZWolf Gang – Black River: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/11/wolf-gang-black-river-new-music
<p>The group's Flood produced new single is comically epic, bolting big melodies onto a shimmering rush of shiny guitars and synths</p><p>By the time Wolf Gang's major label debut album Suego Faults finally arrived in July 2011 - after a year and a half of drip feeding singles out via respected pop label Neon Gold - it felt like they'd slightly missed the boat. Caught in the wave of bands that followed MGMT's Oracular Spectacular – and sharing a producer in Dave Fridmann – their big-chorused, electro-tinged indie was inexplicably ignored by radio. Massive support slots for the likes of Scissor Sisters, The Killers and Coldplay soon followed, as did the band's transformation from being a solo project for multi-instrumentalist Max McElligott to a full-blown recording band on their forthcoming second album. Having signed to influential label Cherrytree – US home to the likes of Disclosure, La Roux and Jessie Ware – the band will release their first new material since 2011 in the shape of the Black River EP later this month. Premiered here, in the last ever daily New Music blog, is the EP's excellent title track, produced by U2 and Foals collaborator, Flood. Taking the former's love for the comically epic and bolting it onto a big shimmering rush of shiny guitars and synths, Black River is a galloping, wonderfully OTT (“save me from a river of sin again” sings Max on the chorus) rush that sounds like Bastille and Arcade Fire making love in a sun-dappled field. Only even better than that sounds.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/11/wolf-gang-black-river-new-music">Continue reading...</a>MusicCulturePop and rockFri, 11 Apr 2014 13:45:24 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/11/wolf-gang-black-river-new-musicPhotograph: PRWolf Gang Photograph: /PRPhotograph: PRWolf Gang Photograph: /PRMichael Cragg2014-04-11T13:45:24ZJacques Greene – No Excuse: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/10/jacques-greene-no-excuse
For Greene's vibrant first single from his forthcoming EP, gymnasts help create hypnotic blurs of colour<p> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KUgDbAoy48">Reading on mobile? Click here to watch</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/10/jacques-greene-no-excuse">Continue reading...</a>MusicCulturePop and rockDanceThu, 10 Apr 2014 12:23:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/10/jacques-greene-no-excusePhotograph: Laura Coulson /PRJacques Greene Photograph: Laura Coulson /PRPhotograph: Laura Coulson /PRJacques Greene Photograph: Laura Coulson /PRMichael Cragg2014-04-10T12:23:00ZGambles – You Won't Remind It: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/09/gambles-you-wont-remind-it
Beyoncé's 'creative consultant' and former folk troubadour Gambles adds some synths to his sound with the help of the mysterious BOOTS<p><br>Obviously Gambles, aka Matthew Daniel Siskin, makes music, that's why he's on this here New Music blog. But, perhaps unfairly I'll admit, I was only initially interested in him because his other job is working as Beyoncé's creative consultant. So while the focus of any interview with him ever will probably focus on his boss, his forthcoming EP, I Can't Keep Still When It Comes To You, shows there's more to him than just Beyoncé's Tumblr page (although speaking of websites, he has created <a href="http://icantkeepstillwhenitcomestoyou.com">this sort of anti-social media, poetry sharing website</a> which is quite good). </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/09/gambles-you-wont-remind-it">Continue reading...</a>MusicCulturePop and rockBeyoncéWed, 09 Apr 2014 14:15:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/09/gambles-you-wont-remind-itPhotograph: PRGamblesPhotograph: PRGamblesMichael Cragg2014-04-09T14:15:00ZNicki Minaj - Chi-Raq: New Musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/08/nicki-minaj-chi-raq-new-music
<p>Minaj has unveiled a menacing anti-single which probably won't top the charts, but should restore faith in those who had written her off as another rapper seduced by mainstream dance-pop</p><p>It's been a little bit quiet in the world of pop lately: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/13/beyonce-surprise-new-album-itunes">the Beyoncé secret album</a> hype has settled, <a href="http://noisey.vice.com/blog/drowning-not-waving-the-slow-and-bitter-end-of-lady-gagas-career">Lady Gaga’s art-flop</a> has disappeared into relative obscurity, and Rihanna’s new record still hasn’t arrived. What’s that snarling, rumbling sound then? Ah yes, a new Nicki Minaj track has hit the web - and she’s still confounding expectations at every turn.</p><p>The rapper’s musical output still seems entirely polarised between generic synth-pop bangers and hard-edged trap beats. Chi-Raq (feat. Lil Herb) falls firmly in the latter camp - a menacing anti-single that’s unlikely to top the charts, but should restore faith in those who had written Minaj off as another rapper seduced by the alluring sales figures of mainstream dance-pop. That said, the pop game has changed since Nicki’s punctation-heavy last album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded - <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/apr/08/nicki-minaj-pink-friday-roman-reloaded-review">The Re-Up</a> was released - maybe <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jun/17/kanye-west-yeezus-review">post-Yeezus</a> and BEYONCÉ, trap beats and shuddering monolithic bass represent a new form of pop music?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/08/nicki-minaj-chi-raq-new-music">Continue reading...</a>Nicki MinajMusicCultureRapTue, 08 Apr 2014 12:16:14 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/08/nicki-minaj-chi-raq-new-musicPhotograph: Danny Moloshok/REUTERSNicki Minaj: 'I always got a trick up my sleeve… I might give you a new trick every week ‘til this album drops' Photograph: Danny Moloshok/REUTERSPhotograph: Danny Moloshok/REUTERSNicki Minaj: 'I always got a trick up my sleeve… I might give you a new trick every week ‘til this album drops' Photograph: Danny Moloshok/REUTERSBen Travis2014-04-08T12:16:14ZEd Sheeran – Sing: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/08/ed-sheeran-sing
Out goes the acoustic whimpering and in comes Pharrell-inspired sex chat on Ed Sheeran's surprising new single<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scHS8YaYoRA"> Reading on mobile? Click here to listen<br></a><br>Ed Sheeran does a lot of things well, but up until yesterday they consisted mainly of wearing a hoodie, strumming an acoustic guitar and looking like he'd shuffled into the limelight almost by accident. Things you can now add to that list after one play of his bold new single Sing include come-hither falsetto, the genuine ability to surprise and possibly the best Justin Timberlake impression this side of Justin Timberlake on The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2. Produced, almost inevitably, by Pharrell Williams, Sing – the first track to emerge form his second album, x – mixes elements of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ3slUz7Jo8">Like I Love You</a> with the feel of 'N Sync's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saxnXiBKEaY">Girlfriend</a> (both Pharrell productions), pairing Sheeran's acoustic riffs with big spacious drums, odd vocal yelps and that stop-start rhythm track that works so well. But while Pharrell's influence is writ large, there's enough of Sheeran there to prevent it coming across as horrible pastiche. Somehow – and scientists will have to look into this for decades to come – Sing also makes Ed Sheeran seem like a wild-eyed lothario rather than someone who might cry during sex. Miraculous. <br>Sing is out on 1 June.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/08/ed-sheeran-sing">Continue reading...</a>MusicCultureEd SheeranPop and rockPharrell WilliamsTue, 08 Apr 2014 09:43:02 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/08/ed-sheeran-singPhotograph: Startraks Photo/Rex FeaturesEd Sheeran and other UK artists enjoyed a bumper 2012 as digital licensing revenues passed radio for the first time. Photograph: Startraks Photo/Rex FeaturesPhotograph: Startraks Photo/Rex FeaturesEd Sheeran and other UK artists enjoyed a bumper 2012 as digital licensing revenues passed radio for the first time. Photograph: Startraks Photo/Rex FeaturesMichael Cragg2014-04-08T09:43:02ZKate Tempest – The Beigeness: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/07/kate-tempest-the-beigeness
Award-winning poet Kate Tempest has made an album, or 'novel rhyme'. Here's the first chapter<p> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/bigdadasound">Reading on mobile? Click here to listen </a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/07/kate-tempest-the-beigeness">Continue reading...</a>Kate TempestMusicCulturePop and rockHip-hopMon, 07 Apr 2014 11:08:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/07/kate-tempest-the-beigenessPhotograph: India Cranks /PRKate Tempest Photograph: India Cranks /PRPhotograph: India Cranks /PRKate Tempest Photograph: India Cranks /PRMichael Cragg2014-04-07T11:08:00ZTove Lo – Stay High (Habits Remix) feat Hippie Sabotage: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/04/tove-lo-stay-high-habits-remix-hippie-sabotage
Tove Lo's new single Habits is so good there are now two versions of it with three separate videos<p> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYM-RJwSGQ8">Reading on mobile? Click here to watch </a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/04/tove-lo-stay-high-habits-remix-hippie-sabotage">Continue reading...</a>MusicCulturePop and rockFri, 04 Apr 2014 14:10:36 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/04/tove-lo-stay-high-habits-remix-hippie-sabotagePhotograph: Josefin Mirsch/PRAuthentic … Tove Lo. Photograph: Josefin MirschPhotograph: Josefin Mirsch/PRAuthentic … Tove Lo. Photograph: Josefin MirschMichael Cragg2014-04-04T14:10:36ZSharon Van Etten – Taking Chances: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/03/sharon-van-etten-taking-chances
Sharon Van Etten takes her chances (ahem) with a Tarot reading in the video for the first single from her fourth album<p> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80-_CpH07QQ">Reading on mobile? Click here to watch </a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/03/sharon-van-etten-taking-chances">Continue reading...</a>MusicCulturePop and rockThu, 03 Apr 2014 12:08:43 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/03/sharon-van-etten-taking-chancesPhotograph: Dusdin Condren/PRSharon Van Etten by Dusdin Condren Photograph: Dusdin Condren/PRPhotograph: Dusdin Condren/PRSharon Van Etten by Dusdin Condren Photograph: Dusdin Condren/PRMichael Cragg2014-04-03T12:08:43ZMark Barrott – Baby Come Home: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/02/mark-barrott-baby-come-home
Influenced by his new home of Ibiza, Barrott's ditched the various aliases to make beautifully blissed out balearic dance music<p> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/international-feel">Reading on mobile? Click here to listen</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/02/mark-barrott-baby-come-home">Continue reading...</a>MusicCultureDance musicPop and rockWed, 02 Apr 2014 10:51:29 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/02/mark-barrott-baby-come-homePhotograph: PRMark Barrott Photograph: PRPhotograph: PRMark Barrott Photograph: PRMichael Cragg2014-04-02T10:51:29ZTasseomancy – Reality: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/01/tasseomancy-reality
Inspired by their tea-leaf reading great-great grandmother, Canadian twins Tasseomancy make oddly sinister synth noise<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdsbyKtmUgk">Reading on mobile? Click here to watch</a><br>The cover of Canadian twin sisters Romy and Sari Lightman's 2008 debut EP, released under the moniker Ghost Bees, featured an image of their great-great grandmother Clara Chernos. The EP was called Tasseomancy, or 'tea-leaf reader', and was a tribute to their elderly relative who did just that for a living. After a shift in sound the pair decided that it should be the <a href="http://exclaim.ca/News/Ghost_Bees_Change_Name_to_Tasseomancy_Release_Timber_Timbre-produced_Single">name they make their music under</a>. Soon after their debut album release, the sisters joined fellow Canadian Austra on tour as backing singers before collecting two new members for their band in the shape of a keyboardist and percussionist. Not that their new single Reality seems like the work of a fully fleshed out band: oddly detached, starkly minimal and with heavily treated vocals mixing with slightly-too-loud keyboard sounds, Reality feels more like an impressionist take on a song than something you might sing along to (despite the lyrics scrolling along the bottom of the screen in the video). Influenced by everything from Margaret O'Hara to wild blueberries and David Lynch's diners, Tasseomancy don't do things by halves, and the brilliantly surreal 70s children's TV show-like video for Reality, premiered here, is no exception. "Reality is fun," they explain. "The backing video track is an adaptation of an early twentieth-century ballet by Bauhaus, masters of merging the horrifying and the absurd into a single reality. Leaving us with the imprint: Let's not take ourselves too seriously. Really."<br>Reality is available to purchase now from <a href="https://tasseomancy.bandcamp.com/track/reality">Bandcamp</a>. Their new album is due out in the autumn.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/01/tasseomancy-reality">Continue reading...</a>MusicCulturePop and rockTue, 01 Apr 2014 13:12:18 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/01/tasseomancy-realityPhotograph: PRTasseomancyPhotograph: PRTasseomancyMichael Cragg2014-04-01T13:12:18ZErotic Market – I Want To Be Some Booty: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/31/erotic-market-i-want-to-be-some-booty
The brilliantly-named French duo's new single references Aaliyah and is all about 'suggestive eroticism'<p> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/jarring-effects">Reading on mobile? Click here to listen</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/31/erotic-market-i-want-to-be-some-booty">Continue reading...</a>MusicCulturePop and rockMon, 31 Mar 2014 10:32:43 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/31/erotic-market-i-want-to-be-some-bootyPhotograph: PRErotic Market Photograph: PRPhotograph: PRErotic Market Photograph: PRMichael Cragg2014-03-31T10:32:43ZMax Marshall – Your Love Is Like: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/28/max-marshall-your-love-is-like
Having made piano-shaped wigs for Lady Gaga, Max Marshall is now concentrating on music, with pretty good results so far<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_a6qIQploM">Reading on mobile? Click here to watch</a><br>22-year-old Baltimore-born, London-based R&amp;B singer Max Marshall's had quite the life so far. Not only did she used to hang out with legends such as Ashford &amp; Simpson and Earth, Wind &amp; Fire as a child while her dad drove them around on tour, she also once helped make Lady Gaga a hair sculpture made to look like a piano. Having studied fashion, Marshall briefly worked for French couture designer Charlie Le Mindu helping make wigs for clients such as Gaga. Having played the violin and viola in various orchestras as a teenager, Marshall soon moved onto the guitar and started recording music behind her parents' backs. Then, on her eighteenth birthday, she moved to London by herself to focus fully on her music career. In October last year she released her debut EP Pressure, before guesting on drum'n'bass duo Matrix &amp; Futurebound's top 10 single, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWYeGHETCSI">Control</a>. While that song set her honeyed vocals in a slightly different context, the R&amp;B throwback production of new single Your Love Is Like suits her like a glove. Over stuttering beats, crumpled vinyl samples and off-kilter electronic textures thrown in for good measure, it's a classic-sounding love song about not being able to see straight when you find the right person. For the video – premiered here – Marshall returns to Baltimore, wandering around the neighbourhoods, getting people to do that thing where you make a heart with your hands. <br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/28/max-marshall-your-love-is-like">Continue reading...</a>MusicCulturePop and rockR&BFri, 28 Mar 2014 14:57:42 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/28/max-marshall-your-love-is-likePhotograph: PRMax MarshallPhotograph: PRMax MarshallMichael Cragg2014-03-28T14:57:42ZNinsun Poli – Breaking Rules: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/27/ninsun-poli-breaking-rules
Another big, thundering electropop moment from a Swedish singer with a penchant for recording songs in her living room<p> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/ninsunpoli">Reading on mobile? Click here to listen </a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/27/ninsun-poli-breaking-rules">Continue reading...</a>MusicCulturePop and rockThu, 27 Mar 2014 14:42:37 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/27/ninsun-poli-breaking-rulesPhotograph: Loella Billner/PRNinsun Poli Photograph: Loella Billner/PRPhotograph: Loella Billner/PRNinsun Poli Photograph: Loella Billner/PRMichael Cragg2014-03-27T14:42:37ZGruff Rhys – American Interior: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/26/gruff-rhys-american-interior
Having helped craft concept albums about publishers and car designers, Rhys has moved onto 18th century Welsh explorers<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMybiPjykD0">Reading on mobile? Click here to watch</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/26/gruff-rhys-american-interior">Continue reading...</a>MusicCulturePop and rockGruff RhysWed, 26 Mar 2014 12:14:32 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/26/gruff-rhys-american-interiorPhotograph: PRGruff Rhys Photograph: PRPhotograph: PRGruff Rhys Photograph: PRMichael Cragg2014-03-26T12:14:32ZRae Morris – Do You Even Know?: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/25/rae-morris-do-you-even-know
Produced by Ariel Rechtshaid, Rae Morris' new single has a lilting melancholia that's reflected in this eerie new video<p> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nz-GlhKZVg">Reading on mobile? Click here to watch</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/25/rae-morris-do-you-even-know">Continue reading...</a>MusicCulturePop and rockTue, 25 Mar 2014 11:32:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/25/rae-morris-do-you-even-knowPhotograph: PRRae Morris Photograph: PRPhotograph: PRRae Morris Photograph: PRMichael Cragg2014-03-25T11:32:00ZMs D – My Pen: New musichttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/24/ms-d-my-pen
Having been a guest vocalist on two UK No 1 singles, it's now Ms D's turn to move centre stage with this ode to a missing pen (possibly)<p>While you may not recognise her name, chances are if you've been near a radio you will have heard Ms D's voice before. Despite the fact that she's yet to release a note of her own music, the woman her friends and family call Dayo Olatunji has appeared on no less than two UK No 1 singles and two other songs that have graced the top ten. Back in 2009 she was the uncredited vocal on Chipmunk's chart-topping <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkXTG-AmzEA">Oopsy Daisy</a>, before appearing on three Wiley singles in a row in 2012/13, including the inescapable pool-side anthem, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qimiWfZAtXw">Heatwave</a>. Not only that but she also wrote the hook for Iggy Azalea's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI1A405jBqg">Bounce</a> and has written with the likes of Rita Ora and Conor Maynard. As with all new singers who rise to fame off the back of featured vocals, the next step – the bit that involves your own songs – is crucial. But if the anthemic, drum'n'bass-inflected My Pen is anything to go by, Ms D hasn't suddenly forgotten how to write a catchy hook, even if it does seem to be about someone running off with her biro. The real treat comes in the shape of the video – premiered here – which feels like a modern-day remake of the end of Michael Jackson's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crbFmpezO4A&amp;feature=kp">Leave Me Alone</a> video, with Ms D being driven over by tiny cars on tiny motorways, while mini aeroplanes fly out of her ears and boats float in her wine glass. <br>My Pen is out on 21 April, while the Resonance EP is out on 28 April.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/24/ms-d-my-pen">Continue reading...</a>MusicCulturePop and rockMon, 24 Mar 2014 10:52:48 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/24/ms-d-my-penPhotograph: PRMs D Photograph: PRPhotograph: PRMs D Photograph: PRMichael Cragg2014-03-24T10:52:48Z